Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Photo journalism





The Times is really getting good with its pictures these days

The two I have picked as illustrations both come, as it happens, from the Business pages

I am a sucker for the stark geometric beauty of the man-made industrial landscape credited to Alamy

We have seen many heartbreaking & terrifying pictures from the Sichuan earthquake. This pained & puzzled pig (credited to Nicky Lom/Reuters) may be the one which sticks in my memory

I have 2 beefs with The Times & its picture policy:

I have no idea of the name of the picture editor

Save for the news pages, they are very bad at, remiss about, picture credits
Times writers long ago came out of the anonymity closet; time the photographers & artists did so too